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In Norman Britain, author William Hunt endeavors to show how Teutonic Northmen were brought under Roman influences before they conquered England, and "how this foreign element...preserved much, destroyed little, and made no violent break in [England's] history." Engaging and enlightening, Norman Britain brings to life the history and customs of this long-ago age.
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The nineteenth century wars against the Xhosa tribes of South Africa could be as savage as any fought and there can be little doubt that imperial powers could use methods verging on genocide when they decided to take over the lands and resources of underdeveloped people. Equally, a savage foe inevitably fought a savage war and Kaffir and Zulu warriors were not given to taking prisoners. This book is by and concerns the experiences of Steven Lakeman...
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Varla Ventura, Coast to Coast favorite, Weird News blogger on Huffington Post, and author of The Book of the Bizarre and Beyond Bizarre, introduces Weiser Books' new Collection of forgotten occult classics. Paranormal Parlor is an eerie assemblage of affordable digital editions, curated with Varla's sixth sense for tales of the weird and unusual. What could be sadder than unrequited love? The unrequited love of a ghost. William Hunt recalls a heartbreaking...
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William Burns is best known as 'America's Sherlock Holmes' and became director at the Bureau of Investigation, to be immediately followed by J. Edgar Hoover. But before he became director, Burns had a long, highly publicized career as a government detective for the Secret Service, then as the head of the famed Burns International Detective Agency, which he founded after leaving government service.
These successes encouraged Burns to start his own...
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William Holman Hunt's "The Triumph of the Innocents" explores themes of innocence, suffering, and redemption through an intricate narrative framed by the Biblical Massacre of the Innocents. The book follows Mary, Joseph, and the infant Jesus as they flee to Egypt to escape King Herod's decree, which orders the massacre of all male infants in Bethlehem. Visionary elements and symbolic imagery imbue the tale with a layered complexity that addresses...
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William Morris Hunt (March 31, 1824—September 8, 1879) was an American painter.
Born into the political Hunt family of Vermont, he trained in Paris with the realist Jean-François Millet and studied under him at the Barbizon artists' colony, before founding a similar group on his return to America. He became Boston's leading portrait and landscape painter, also working as a lithographer and sculptor. In 1871 he was elected into the National Academy...
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